It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Tana French

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Philip Guston

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

Andy Rooney

All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

Will Rogers

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

Stephen Harper

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

John W. Gardner

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

Ernest Istook

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?

Sebastian Barry

Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.

Victor Hugo

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

Hillary Clinton